pests

Oh, Aiptasia X, Purple elixir of death. Pop, pop, pop, pop, ahhh...

I recently noticed that a frag of green mdntipora had a small area where the flesh was gone and the skeleton was exposed. It had soon before i noticed this fallen from it's spot, so I thought that it had possibly been damaged and the flesh had simply fallen off. I kept an eye on it, and a week...

Protect your reef from algae and pests the natural way.. and Win a Baby Groot! As many of us just use chemicals to remedy issues.. there's something beautiful of curing issues the natural way.

Got some sps corals last night and placed them in the tank with some reef glue and one of them was already a little white at the base but this morning they all looked alot whiter, not sure what it could be because i have a other sps next to it like raptors claw and birdsnest and they look...

In my younger days of reef keeping (only just got to my second year) I didn't have a keen eye for the many hitchhiking pests on frag plugs. Thankfully after a closer eye developed and a good dipping regiment, I feel as though I've kept many bad things out. However, I have tons of vermited...

I believe even after extensive safeguards my tank is now infested with aptasia...everything was brand new, rock and sand dry...my three coral frags closely inspected and dipped...I don't believe it was my CuC...as they were added months prior to coral...thoughts?? How much "Spores" does it take...

bought a new 11 pound Fiji rock a couple days ago and am seeing a small snail and crab, probably more critters yet to be discovered. The snail is probably 1/16 of an inch across and the crab is about 1/8 of an inch across (very rough estimates). Please let me know if either of the guys are...

Hi, Yesterday I noticed my trachyphyllia wasn't doing to well, everything seemed to be okay until yesterday I noticed it was either bleaching or showing skeleton. I moved it too a lower light and lower flow area of the tank so see if this helped as it had been sat in my sand below an MP10. Today...